WHO’S WHO

at the Sky’s Edge (Sheffield Crucible); Little Shop of Horrors (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); On The Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music, Lyric Opera Chicago, US Tour & The Barbican); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic); wonder.land (National Theatre); In the Heights (King’s Cross Theatre/Southwark Playhouse) which won the 2016 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music and Hobson’s Choice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre). Music Director credits: Something Rotten (Wermland Opera, Sweden); Made in Dagenham (Adelphi/Rupert Goold); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury/Tamara Harvey); The Color Purple (Menier/John Doyle); West Side Story (NYMT/ Nikolai Foster); The Witches of Eastwick (UK Tour/Nikolai Foster). As a composer: The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids Company (Donmar Warehouse); Pity (Royal Court); Little Red Riding Hood, a ballet conceived by Drew McOnie commissioned by The National Youth Ballet of Great Britain; Last Night a Killer Saved my Life (French Fancy Films); Lost for Words (Workhouse Films). Film credits as a conductor include: Genius (Michael Grandage/Adam Cork); Richard II, Macbeth (Rupert Goold/Adam Cork). Albums as Conductor/ Orchestrator: Just Let Go (Hadley Fraser); Terry Pratchett’s Only You Can Save Mankind (Leighton James House); Looking Up (Simon Bailey); Dark Side of the Egg (The Knights of Hyperbole).

TOM SCUTT (Hair, Costume, and Original Scenic Design) won the Linbury Biennial Prize in Stage Design (2007), WhatsOnStage Award for Best Set Designer (2013) and 2016 Tony Award nomination for costume design for King Charles III. He was Creative Director for Christine and The Queens, Sam Smith, Ben Platt, and Liam Gallagher, Production Designer for MTV Video Music Awards 2015 & 2016 at Microsoft Theater and Madison Square Garden and for Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up (V&A). Other productions in the U.S. include Constellations (West End/UK Tour/Manhattan Theatre Club); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Donmar/Booth Theatre); King Charles III (West End/Almeida/NYC Music Box Theatre/ UK Tour/Sydney Theatre Company). Major projects include Summer and Smoke (West End/Almeida); A Very Expensive Poison (Old Vic Theatre); The Weir (& West End); Berberian Sound Studio, Belleville, The Lady from The Sea (Donmar); Outwitting the Devil (Akram Khan Company); Grand Finale (Hofesh Shechter Company). As Director: Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar).

LEE CURRAN (Lighting Designer). A lighting designer of theatre, dance and opera, Lee has worked on most of London’s major stages, including the National Theatre, Royal Court, Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, Almeida, Donmar Warehouse, Young

Vic, Old Vic, and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. His designs for dance artists such as Hofesh Shechter have toured around the world. He has three Olivier Award nominations, for Jesus Christ Superstar, Summer and Smoke, and Constellations, the latter of which also ran on Broadway. Lee is an Artist Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.

KEITH CAGGIANO (Sound Design). Select credits: Holiday Inn - The New Irving Berlin Musical, The Radio City Spring Spectacular, Himself and Nora, Disenchanted, Bare; Tours: Cabaret, RENT, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes; Regional: The Most Beautiful Room in NY, Austen’s Pride, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Little Shop of Horrors, Guys and Dolls. Keith also designs and engineers live events and consults on professional sound system installations. He is a graduate of Duquesne University.

BRIAN HARLAN BROOKS (Associate Director). Born in Pittsburgh, PA, raised in Teaneck, NJ. Training: Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Ailey School; Acting at William Esper Studios. Performing in dance companies, theatres & TV/Film productions: Philadanco, Deeply Rooted Chicago Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Group, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple 1st National Tour, “Boardwalk Empire”, “Tormenting the Hen”. Dir. AileyCamp Missouri. Assoc. Choreographer: Motown: The Musical on Broadway and all U.S./U.K. tours. Assoc. Choreographer: Born For This, First Noel. Co-Dir.: One Harlem Night. Dir.: While I Have the Floor. Assoc. Dir. of Jesus Christ Superstar tour. Res-Dir: Ain't Too Proud tour. Dir. Work Equity Action for Work Light Productions.

DAVID HOLCENBERG (Music Supervisor) Broadway: MJ (Drama Desk Award, Tony and Outer Critics nomination-best orchestrations), Groundhog Day, Mamma Mia!, Matilda, Rocky, Ghost, Bye Bye Birdie, The Story of My Life, Good Vibrations, Seussical, Titanic and Showboat Other credits: Newsies (world premiere Paper Mill Playhouse), Ragtime (US Premiere), The Glorious Ones and Dessa Rose (LCT) The Radio City Summer Spectacular, Mamma Mia! at the Hollywood Bowl.

MARK BINNS (Music Director) recently toured the country as the music director of the world premiere production of An Officer and a Gentleman, written and directed by Tony-nominee Dick Scanlan. Other touring credits include Motown The Musical and RENT (20th Anniversary Tour). He also spent some time at sea with Norwegian Cruise Line as the music director of the Broadway smash Jersey Boys and Havana, a revue directed and choreographed by Tony-winner Warren Carlyle. Mark has directed and/or performed hundreds of shows at regional theatres around the country including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, and Lincoln Center.

Selected past favorite credits as music director include Les Misérables, The Bridges of Madison County (regional premiere at Arkansas Rep), Hairspray, West Side Story, Memphis, (regional premiere at Arkansas Rep), Sweeney Todd, and many more. Mark is also an accomplished singer, and some of Mark’s recording projects can be found wherever you stream music. Endless gratitude to the cast, crew, the amazing band and to WLP! For Mom, always.

DAVID ARSENAULT (Associate Scenic Designer). As as designer and associate, David’s work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. Recent designs in NYC: #DateMe: An OKCupid Experiment, A Letter to Harvey Milk. Regional: Ogunquit, Weston, Dorset Theatre Festival, George Street Playhouse, Bay Street Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Northern Stage, Gulfshore Playhouse, among others. International: English Theatre Berlin. Broadway Associate: Hillary and Clinton, The Color Purple, and King Charles III. www.DavidArsenaultDesign.com

RYAN O’GARA (Associate Lighting Designer). Selected work: Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Thoughts Of A Colored Man, Cesar Millan- Unleashed!, NBC Upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Juke Box Hero, A Night with Janis Joplin and Vocalocity. Various productions for Norwegian Cruise Line, New York City Opera, Paper Mill, Walnut Street, Drury Lane (2019 Jeff Nomination), TUTS, Signature DC, New Victory, Lincoln Center Festival, Capital Repertory and Bristol Riverside Theatre (2016 Barrymore Award). Associate Lighting Designer for over 25 Broadway productions, currently: Ain't Too Proud, Come From Away and Hamilton. O’Gara graduated from NCSA. www.ryanogara.com

RICK SORDELET & CHRISTIAN KELLYSORDELET (Fight Directors) created SORDELET INC, www.sordeletinc.com with 80 Broadway credits, TV: 1,200 episodes for “Guiding Light” and “Kevin Can Wait” starring Kevin James for both seasons. Film: One True Loves starring Simu Liu, Ben Is Back starring Julia Roberts. 65 international productions. Rick taught at Yale School of Drama for 22 years. Christian at CUNY Harlem and HB Studio. Both teach for William Esper Studios.

MIDIOMATIC, LLC - ETHAN DEPPE (Keyboard Programmer) Midiomatic is a collective of electronic music designers providing solutions in theatre, film, television, and recording. Lead programmer for JCS is Ethan Deppe, a Chicago-based composer, producer, and co-founder of KeyboardTEK, which rents out programming to theatres worldwide.

WOJCIK CASTING TEAM (Casting) B’way: The Little Prince. Bad Apple @ NY/NY, Las Vegas. Tours: Motown, Dreamgirls and Jekyll & Hyde-S Korea, West Side Story-Tokyo, Nice Work…, Something Rotten!, RENT, Kinky Boots, Rock of Ages, An Officer & A Gentleman,

Flashdance, Joseph… Dreamcoat, and A Chorus Line. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Kinky Boots, Noise Boys and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Extensive Branded Family Entertainment tours including Mr. Blippi, Blues Clues, Cocomelon, Baby Shark and more Off-Broadway: Othello: The Remix, Church & State, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Character Play, Handle With Care, Triassic Parq and more. Regional: Multiple seasons/shows for Riverside Theatre, FL; Tuacahn PAC, UT; Theatre Aspen and the Arvada Center, CO; Stages St. Louis, MO, Theatre Raleigh, NC; The Engeman Theatre and Summer Theatre of New Canaan, NY; ACT of CT, In Development: SuperYou and His Story.

MATTHEW BROOKS (Production Stage Manager) He/him. Matthew is excited to be with Work Light again. National Tours: An Officer and a Gentleman, The Musical (Work Light Productions); Rosie Revere, Engineer and Friends (TheaterWorksUSA); and A Christmas Story, The Musical (Big League Productions). When he is not traveling, he is often in sunny Sarasota, Florida with the Asolo Repertory Theatre. He most recently worked on their world premiere musical, Knoxville, with Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Frank Galati. Additional regional credits: New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Matthew is a proud graduate of the stage management program at the University of Illinois NIA J. BLIZZARD (Assistant Stage Manager) She/they. Nia is SO grateful to be making their National Tour debut! Some of their most recent credits include Tina: The Tina Turner Musical by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, and Kees Prins (Stage Management Fellow, Bespoke Theatricals), First Down by SEVAN (Assistant Stage Manager, Noor Theater Company), and The Last of the Love Letters by Ngozi Anyanwu (Stage Management Fellow, Atlantic Theater Company). When not stage managing, you can find them binge watching their favorite reality TV shows, FaceTiming their friends or reading a novel on their kindle. Sending all my love to my Mom and The Circle™! Follow me on Instagram @nia_blizzard1!

MICHAEL COGLAN (Company Manager).

Recent national/international tours: An Officer And A Gentleman, Bandstand, Rent, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, 42nd Street, My Fair Lady, How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hair, The Producers. Off-Broadway credits include Transport Group, The Flea Theater. Regional credits: Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Bard SummerScape and Center Theatre Group.

PORT CITY TECHNICAL (Production Management) is a production management company based in Charleston, S.C. Also referred to as “Work Light South,” PCT was